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← 650 P2D 1159 - Cates v. Barb

Cates v. Barb’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
January 2021
most recently cited

1 district · 16 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2021

1 district · 16 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Chrysler Corp. v. Todorovich · Wheatland Irrigation District v. McGuire · Diefenderfer v. Totman · Waters v. Brand · Brennan v. Laramie Newspapers, Inc.

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"* * * [W]hile damages may not be calculable with absolute certainty, they should be susceptible of ascertainment with a reasonable degree of certainty and if there is evidence from which a reasonable estimate of money damages may be made that is sufficient, the primary objective being to determine the amount of loss, applying whatever rule is best suited to that purpose. * * *"”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. O'S Gold Seed Co. v. United Agri-Products Financial Services, Inc. · Reiman Construction Co. v. Jerry Hiller Co.
  2. “In order to sustain an action for disparagement of another’s property or title, it is necessary to show damages. Diefenderfer v. Totman, 73 Wyo. 409 , 280 P.2d 284 (1955), followed in Brennan v. Laramie Newspapers, Inc., Wyo., 493 P.2d 1044 (1972). See also, Restatement, Torts 2d §§ 624-632, comment b; § 632 explicitly requires p[Jecuniary loss in order to complete the cause of action.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Sannerud v. Brantz

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.